The third option "Rhyolitic" would be your answer.
When energy passes from one trophic level to the next, I would guess that the two factors which decrease the total amount of energy from being passed up are:
1. An organism does not assimilate all the energy of food consumed. Within a consumer, digestion and assimilation of energy is not 100% efficient: some of the energy is lost.
2. A large proportion of energy assimilated by a producer and consumer is lost through respiration, i.e., day-to-day maintenance of metabolic processes.
Mitochondria, plastids and chloroplast all are surrounded by a double membrane
Trichomes increase the chances of survival for plants living in areas with infrequent rainfall.
If a plant in a very rainy place had trichomes, it would probably adapt and remove them as time passed as they are unnecessary.
